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The description '''Moors''' has referred to several historic and modern populations of [[Muslim]] (and earlier non-Muslim) people of [[Berber people|Berber]], [[Black African]] and [[Arab]] descent from [[North Africa]], some of whom came to conquer and occupy the [[Iberian Peninsula]] for nearly 800 years. The North Africans termed it [[Al Andalus]], comprising most of what is now [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]. Moors are not distinct or self-defined people, but the appellation was applied by medieval and early modern Europeans primarily to Berbers, but also [[Arab]]s, and [[Muladi|Muslim Iberians]]. The description '''Moors''' has referred to several historic and modern populations of [[Muslim]] (and earlier non-Muslim) people of [[Berber people|Berber]], [[Black African]] and [[Arab]] descent from [[North Africa]], some of whom came to conquer and occupy the [[Iberian Peninsula]] for nearly 800 years. The North Africans termed it [[Al Andalus]], comprising most of what is now [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]. Moors are not distinct or self-defined people, but the appellation was applied by medieval and early modern Europeans primarily to Berbers, but also [[Arab]]s, and [[Muladi|Muslim Iberians]].
- +== See also ==
-As early as 1911, mainstream scholars of the [[EB1911]] pose that "The term '''Moors''' has no real ethnological value." However, the term "Moor" is a self-identifying term of [[Nationality]] in Article 6 of the [[Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship]], the oldest unbroken treaty to which the [[United States]] is a signatory and is often synonomous with Moroccan, Al-Moroccan, and Moorish.+*[[Adarga]]
- +*[[Al-Andalus]]
-In the [[Spanish language]], the term for Moors is ''Moro''; in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] the word is ''mouro''. There seems to have been some confusion about the relationship of the word ''moro''/''mouro'' to the word ''[[moreno]]'' (which means brown), both from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''maúros'', i.e. [[black]]. However, the two words have different etymological roots.+*[[Caliphate of Córdoba]]
- +*[[Almohad dynasty]]
-The Andalusian Moors of the [[Late Middle Ages|late Medieval]] era inhabited the Iberian Peninsula after the Moorish conquests of the [[Rashidun]] and [[Umayyad]] Caliphates, and the final [[Umayyad conquest of Hispania]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}The Moors' rule stretched at times as far as modern-day [[Mauritania]], [[West African]] countries, and the [[Senegal River]]. Earlier, the [[Ancient Rome|Classical Romans]] interacted (and later conquered) parts of [[Mauretania]], a state which covered northern portions of modern Morocco and much of north western and central Algeria during the classical period. The people of the region were noted in [[Classical literature]] as the ''[[Mauri (people)|Mauri]]''.+*[[Almoravid dynasty]]
- +*[[Marinid dynasty]]
-The term ''Mauri'', or variations thereof, was later used by [[Europe]]an traders and explorers of the 16th to 18th centuries to designate ethnic Berber and Arab groups speaking the ''[[Hassaniya]]'' Arabic dialect.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} Today such groups inhabit [[Mauritania]] and parts of [[Algeria]], [[western Sahara]], [[Morocco]], [[Niger]] and [[Mali]] and to those in India. ''Mauri'' was the genesis of the name of the ancient kingdom of Mauretania, which gave its name to the modern [[Islamic Republic of Mauritania]]. In the [[Philippines]], some residents use a variation of the term to designate some Muslim populations, the [[Moro people|Moros]].+*[[Averroes]]
- +*[[Böszörmény]]
-Speakers of [[Languages of Europe|European languages]] have historically designated a number of ethnic groups "Moors". In modern Iberia, the term continues to be associated with those of [[Demographics of Morocco|Moroccan ethnicity]] living in Europe. Some consider it [[pejorative]] and racist. Moor is sometimes used in a wider context to describe any person from [[North Africa]]. The Spanish use the term and think of it as neutral in local sayings such as "''no hay moros en la costa''" (literally, "There are no Moors on the coast", meaning "the coast is clear").+*[[Nasrid dynasty]]
 +*[[Barbary pirate]]
 +*[[Berber people]]
 +*[[Tariq ibn Ziyad]]
 +*[[North Africa]]
 +*[[Orientalism]]
 +*[[Othello]]
 +*[[Moorish architecture]]
 +*[[Alhambra]]
 +*[[Emirate of Granada]]
 +*[[History of North Africa]]
 +*[[History of Portugal]]
 +*[[History of Spain]]
 +*[[Islam in Spain]]
 +*[[Moorish Revival]]
 +*[[Morisco]]
 +*[[Ricote (Don Quixote)]]
 +*[[Taifa]]
 +*[[Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian peninsula]]
 +*[[Moorish Science Temple of America]]
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The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of Muslim (and earlier non-Muslim) people of Berber, Black African and Arab descent from North Africa, some of whom came to conquer and occupy the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. The North Africans termed it Al Andalus, comprising most of what is now Spain and Portugal. Moors are not distinct or self-defined people, but the appellation was applied by medieval and early modern Europeans primarily to Berbers, but also Arabs, and Muslim Iberians.

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